Conference of the German Association for the Study of English

Description

In 2017 Anglistentag, the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English, returned to Regensburg for the first time in forty years, after one previous conference in 1977. Anglistentag 2017 took place from 21-23 September in the Uni- versity's Vielberth building and at various sites around the medieval UNESCO world heritage city centre, with thematic sections, plenary talks and workshops. The year 2017 also saw the University of Regensburg's fiftieth anniversary celebrations, and our conference joined an impressive panorama of events and festivities. We were joined for Anglistentag by several Presidents and committee members of our European partner organisations: the President and Vice-President of the Anglistenverband, Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider and Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig, were able to welcome Prof. Dr. Liliane Louvel (President of ESSE); Prof. Dr. Montserrat Martínez-Vázquez (President of the Spanish Association for the Study of English); Prof. Dr. Andreas Jucker (President of the Swiss Association for the Study of English); Prof. Dr. Wilfrid Rotgé (President of the French Association for the Study of English) and Prof. Dr. Ryszard Wolny (President of the Polish Association for the Study of English). As keynote speakers for the plenary talks, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve University), Prof. Dr. Brian Cummings (University of York) and Prof. Dr. Tony McEnery (Lancaster University).Besides five thematic sections, on "Digital Humanities: The Role of the Digital in English Philology"; "The Value of Economic Criticism Reconsidered: Approaching Literature and Culture through the Lens of Economics"; "Women in Men's Shoes: 'Sheroes' in Literatures and Cultures of the British Isles, the Commonwealth and Beyond"; "The Reformation in the English-Speaking World" and "Adaptations, Crea- tions and Transformations: Teaching Literature Today", the conference offered two lunchtime workshops, on "Britain after Brexit" and the "Digital Humanities", for which we were joined by Dr. Almut Breitenbach (SUB Göttingen); Prof. Dr. Tanja Bültmann (Northumbria University – via Skype); Rachel Launay (Director, British Council Berlin) and journalist Alexander Menden, recipient of the 2017 Journalism Prize of the Anglistenverband.

Period	20 Sept 2017 → 23 Sept 2017
Event type	Conference
Location	Regensburg, GermanyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International